INTEL E10G42AFDA

Product Brief
Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
Network Connectivity
Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
10 Gigabit Performance
for Top-of-Rack Connections
The Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter is the
newest member of Intel’s robust family of 10 Gigabit products.
Designed as a low-cost, low-power adapter, the Intel 10 Gigabit
AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter provides direct attach copper
twinaxial cable connections between servers and a top-of-rack
switch. Two ports, coupled with a low-profile PCI Express* form
factor, make this adapter ideal for slot-constrained environments.
Using direct attach copper cables compliant with the SFP + MSA
SFF-8431 specification, the Intel 10 Gigabit AD DA Dual Port
Server Adapter is well-suited for customers who require low-cost
“in-the-rack” connections of less than 10 meters between server
and top-of-rack switch.
Energy-Efficient, Next-Generation
10 Gigabit Performance
distribution of Ethernet workloads across CPU cores. Load balancing of interrupts using MSI-X enables more efficient response times
and application performance. CPU utilization can be lowered further
through stateless offloads such as TCP segmentation offload,
header replications/splitting, and Direct Cache Access (DCA).
Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA Server Adapters are optimized for
10 Gigabit Ethernet is rapidly becoming the mainstay for
virtualized environments, supporting multiple queues, alleviat-
backbones within enterprise and service provider networks.
ing I/O bottlenecks between virtual machines. Virtual Machine
Intel’s 10GBASE Direct Attach adapter extends the 10 Gigabit
Device queue1 (VMDq) technology offloads data sorting and
adoption to the server rack. The escalating deployments of
data copying from the virtual machine monitor (VMM) software
servers with multi-core processors and demanding applications
layer to the hardware, improving overall throughput and CPU
such as high-performance computing (HPC), database clusters,
utilization on virtualized servers. Additionally, Intel 10 Gigabit AF
virtualized servers and video on demand are driving the need
DA Server Adapters enable Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology2
for 10 Gigabit connections in the server rack. Based on the
(Intel® I/OAT) with support for Intel® QuickData for faster I/O
82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller, Intel’s 10 Gigabit AF DA
processing on the new Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon®
Server Adapter is designed to meet the throughput and latency
processor-based servers.
requirements of bandwidth-hungry applications, while offering a
very low-power envelope for energy efficiency.
Performance-Enhancing Features
for Multi-Core Environments
Conserve valuable PCI Express (PCIe*) server slots while adding
10 Gigabit Ethernet capability with Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA
Server Adapters. The dedicated input/output (I/O) bandwidth
of PCIe ensures priority performance on each port – without
bus sharing – for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, as well as a
As a member of the 10 Gigabit family of products, the 10GbE Direct
low-profile design, which improves server throughput and rack
Attach adapter supports all of the features and functionality in
density at the same time. In addition, eight-lane PCIe enables
Intel’s other 82598EB-based adapters. When implemented within
maximum bandwidth for fast and efficient data transfer. The
multi-core processor environments, the Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA
low-power, efficient design allows for two 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Server Adapter offers advanced networking features for efficient
ports in a single low-profile PCIe adapter.
Advances for Unified Storage
The fast growth in storage capacity coupled with server virtual-
reliable networked storage can be achieved via native iSCSI
ization has brought the need for Storage Area Network (SAN) to
support with Microsoft, Linux*, and VMware operating systems
the forefront. To satisfy this growing demand, Intel’s 10 Gigabit
as well as support for iSCSI remote boot. Advanced QoS features
AF DA Server adapter supports iSCSI acceleration and provides
such as priority groups and per priority pause are also imple-
advanced features for unified storage connectivity. Fast and
mented in the adapters.
Features
Benefits
Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
• Industry-leading, energy-efficient design for next-generation 10 Gigabit performance and
multi-core processors
Low profile
• Enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe slots and servers
Load balancing on multiple CPUs
• Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across
CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux*
Intel® I/OAT2
• Accelerates I/O with higher throughput and lower CPU utilization by offloading processing overhead
iSCSI remote boot support
• Provides centralized storage area network (SAN) management at a lower cost than competing
iSCSI solutions
MSI-X support
• Minimizes the overhead of interrupts
• Allows load balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs
Virtual Machine Device queues1 (VMDq)
• Allows the efficient routing of packets to the correct target machine in a virtualized environment
using multiple hardware queues
• Ensures transmit fairness and prevents head-of-line blocking
Low latency
• Ability to toggle between the interrupt aggregation and non-aggregation mode based on the
type of data being transferred
Optimized queues: 32 Transmit (Tx) and
64 Receive (Rx) per port
• Network packet handling without waiting or buffer overflow
• Efficient packet prioritization
Compatible with x4,6 x8, and x16 standard and low-profile
PCI Express* slots
• Allows dual-port operation in almost any PCI Express server slot, except x1 slots, and allows each
PCI Express slot port to operate without interfering with the other
Support for most Network Operating Systems (NOS)
• Enables widespread deployment
Remote management support
• Reduces support costs with remote management based on industry-wide standards
SFP+ Direct Attached Cable (Twinaxial)
• Ensures compatibility with direct attached cable lengths up to 10 meters
RoHS compliant3, lead-free 4 technology
• Compliant with the European Union directive (effective as of July 2006) to reduce the use of
hazardous materials
Intel® PROSet Utility for Microsoft Windows*
Device Manager
• Provides point-and-click power over individual adapters, advanced adapter features, connection
teaming, and virtual local area network (VLAN) configuration
Intel backing
• Backed by an Intel® limited lifetime warranty, 90-day money-back guarantee (U.S. and Canada), and
worldwide support
Specifications
General
Intel Backing
Product code
E10G42AFDA
Limited lifetime warranty
•
Connectors
SFP+ connectors
•
Cabling
• SFP+ direct attached cable
(twinaxial) only
• Other SFP+ optics are not allowed
and cannot be used with this adapter
90-day, money-back guarantee
(U.S. and Canada)
Advanced Software Features
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
•
Adapter Product Features
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
•
Intel® PROSet Utility
• F or easy configuration and
management
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
•
Teaming support
•
Intel® lead-free technology
•
IEEE 802.3ae*
•
Plug and play specification support
Standard
Test switch configuration
Intel® I/OAT2 including QuickData
•
Tested with major switch original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
Ships with full-height bracket installed,
low-profile bracket added in package
•
PCIe Hot Plug*/Active Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI)
•
RoHs3
•
IEEE 802.1Q* VLANs
•
IEEE 802.3 2005* flow control support
•
Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum 0 offloading
(IPv4, IPv6) capabilities control protocol (TCP),
user datagram protocol (UDP), Internet
protocol (IP)
•
IEEE 802.1p*
•
TCP segmentation/large send offload
•
4
Receive-side scaling
•
VMDq1
In a virtualized environment, packets
dedicated to different virtual machines
can be routed to different queues, thus
easing the routing of these packets to
the target machine
Advanced packet filtering (per port)
•16 exact-matched packets
(unicast or multicast)
•4 096-bit hash filter for
multicast frames
•Promiscuous (unicast and multicast)
transfer mode support
•Optional filtering of invalid frames
Direct Cache Access (DCA)
The I/O device activates a pre-fetch
engine in the CPU that loads the data
into the CPU cache ahead of time,
before use, eliminating cache misses
and reducing CPU load
Network Management
5
MSI-X supports Multiple Independent Queues •
Interrupt moderation
•
IPv6 offloading
Checksum and segmentation capability
extended to new standard packet type
Technical Features
Data rate supported per port
10 Gigabit
Bus type
PCI Express 2.0 (2.5 GT/s)
Bus width
x8 lane PCI Express, operable in x4,6 x8
and x16 slots
DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
•
Bus speed (x8, encoded rate)
20 Gbps uni-directional; 40 Gbps
bi-directional
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
•
Interrupt levels
INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD
PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only
Memory (ROM)
•
Hardware certifications
FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, MIC
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Controller-processor
Intel® 82598EB
Typical power consumption
• 12.2 W maximum power, 10.1 W
typical power
• P CI Express +3.3 V power supply –
consumes 2.3 A max, 1.7 A typical
• P CI Express +12 V power supply –
consumes 0.4 A max, 0.4 A typical
Microsoft Windows* 2003 Server
IA32, X64
Microsoft Vista*
IA32, X64, IPF
Windows Virtual Server* 2005
IA32, X64, IPF
Red Hat Linux* 2.6x or later
IA32, X64, IPF
Airflow
150 LFM (Linear Feet per Minute)
SUSE SLES 10* or later, Professional 9.2
or later
IA32, X64, IPF
Operating temperature
FreeBSD* 5.x or later
IA32, X64, IPF
0° C to 55° C (32° F to 131° F) with
100 LFM forced airflow (linear feet
per minute)
ESX 3.x* support (for VMware)
IA32, X64, IPF
Storage temperature
-40° C to 70° C (-40° F to 158° F)
Fedora*
IA32, X64, IPF
Storage humidity
90% non-condensing relative humidity
at 35° C
EFI 1.1*
IA32, X64, IPF
LED Indicators
LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)
Physical Dimensions
Length
16.74 cm (6.59 in)
Width
6.89 cm (2.71 in)
Height of end bracket
PCI Express standard, 12 cm (4.725 in)
PCI Express low-profile, 7.92 cm (3.12 in)
Order Codes
Network-Ready Servers
E10G42AFDA
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opper or fiber-optic network connectivity, up to
two ports per card
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four ports per card
– Solutions for PCI Express, PCI-X,* and PCI interfaces
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1Intel® VMDq requires an operating system that supports VMDq.
2
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) requires an operating system that supports Intel I/OAT.
3Lead and other materials banned in RoHS Directive are either (1) below all applicable substance thresholds the EU or (2) an approved exemption applies.
4Lead has not been intentionally added, but lead may still exist as an impurity below 1000 ppm, or an approved RoHS exemption applies.
5Available only when used with a capable switch.
Only x4 connections implemented with an x8 connector are supported.
6
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